Category Archives: Her Angel Series

Her Dark Angel – angel / witch romance novella

Posted on 27th February 2010 by Felicity Heaton

Well, I finished writing Her Dark Angel in first draft this week. In the end, it turned out to be 28000 words, which is a pretty respectable length for a good quick read. It was nice writing something that was pretty much unplanned and which I hadn’t even thought of before last week. Funny when that happens. I have novels waiting to be written, and there’s always something that jumps the queue.

Speaking of queue jumpers. Forbidden Blood second draft is underway. I had Wednesday-Friday off this week to use up some remaining holiday and managed to not only get sick on Tuesday afternoon, as though in preparation for time off, but have managed to completely work through my holiday days too. I’m not sure what that says about me. I take time off work to do my other job. Lol. Hubby says that I need to remember how to have fun. There was a time when I was happy to spend a whole day playing PlayStation and was happy at the end of it. I’ve completely forgotten how to do nothing and be happy with it. If I spend a day like that now, I feel as though I’ve wasted it. Enough of life stuff, back to Forbidden Blood.

I read it on paper, as a reader, as I always do when starting an edit, on Wednesday and Thursday morning, and it’s actually in better nick than I had expected it to be. There’s a few things to address, but nothing major, not like I sometimes get with stories (Love Immortal, you know I’m talking about you… and you Winter’s Kiss… and Cabin Fever!).

I don’t think it will take me too long to do the second draft on it. I need to do my usual process but that shouldn’t take me more than a few weeks, and then I can get on with my other stories, and then decide what to do with them!

Her Dark Angel is probably going to be released through Alinar Publishing. It has been a while since I had a paid for release there, and I really need to keep my name out there. Everyone has come back with very nice comments about the cover that I’ve made. I’d like to get it out soonish but edits take time and I can’t rush them. People have asked about the summary and when they can read it, but I have none of that side of stuff done yet. I’ve only just written it! I hope that I’ll be able to get the story released this summer.

I have a couple of other novellas to write too. One is a werewolf/vampire romance, and the other is vampire/vampire romance. Both of them are Vampires Realm stories.

I need to go and plan out my writing schedule and see how punishing it will be!

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Her Dark Angel – cover (angel/witch romance ebook)

Posted on 26th February 2010 by Felicity Heaton

I just got done making the cover for Her Dark Angel and I’m pretty pleased with it so in my excitement, I thought that I would share it with everyone. Comments are more than welcome. This one took quite a while so I’m pooped now and haven’t made much progress on my list since this wasn’t even on it!!!

Ooh, lookit the pretty!

Now I just have to edit, proof, and release the story! Not sure when it will be out. I’ll probably work out the schedule for it tomorrow and will let you all know in my weekly update post. I expect it will be this summer.

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Heart of Darkness – vampire romance novel complete in first draft – and Her Dark Angel

Posted on 20th February 2010 by Felicity Heaton

Well, I finished writing the first draft of my latest vampire romance novel, Heart of Darkness, this week. I finished it on Wednesday and it’s complete at 124,546 words, written in 3.5 weeks! That’s pretty good going I think. I’ve had a good time writing it and although I had a moment in the third week where I was stuttering a bit, and I had to push myself in the final week to get it finished, I’m rather happy with the outcome.

I don’t think I’ll be killing myself to get my next novel written so quickly, although I have freed up some time in which I decided to write a couple of the short stories for my A Day In The Life series of free ebooks, and I’ve even decided to write a rather steamy paranormal romance novella too which I’m burning through right now. I can hopefully find some time to write another few paranormal romance stories which I have ideas for, all shorts or novellas, in between editing my three bigger stories.

I wrote the A Day In The Life story for Lilith, from Seventh Circle, and Balt, from Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess, which are both due out over summer. Both of them turned out at 3000 words. The whole series is made up of free ebooks that are around that length or up to 4000 or so. I’m going to be proofing the stories for Kim, from In Heat, and Valentine, from the Prophecy Trilogy and Spellbound, tomorrow.

I’m going to start on the second draft of Forbidden Blood on Wednesday this week when I have some holiday time for a few days. The usual trick to start with, giving it a good read through on paper pretending to be just a reader and making notes on the obvious things to fix. I’ve allocated four weeks to do the second draft, which should be enough time based on how long it’s taken me to do second drafts on previous novels of similar length. Besides, this one is in pretty good shape already and there’s only a few things that I know I might want to fix or improve, besides the usual of fight scenes, death scenes and love scenes.

As for the new erotica paranormal romance novella I’m writing, that’s quite fun right now and I’m flying through it with almost 9000 words written for it only yesterday. I haven’t really planned this one, which is unusual for me. I only have a few scraps of notes for it which I’m working from and giving my muse free leave with the rest. I should have it done by Tuesday night though so I don’t impact on my second draft of Forbidden Blood. This story is a new sub-genre of paranormal romance for me. Her Dark Angel features a witch for a heroine and an angel for the hero. It’s going to be the same sort of heat level as my In Heat stories, with plenty of love scenes and passion, and a deep attraction between the hero and heroine. I can’t really say much about it without giving it all away! I’ve written angels before in Seventh Circle, both the good sort and the sort that have been corrupted, and I enjoy spinning a new take on them, and I’ll be doing the same with this one, only this time he’s the hero!

I’m over my parents right now gearing up for a birthday party and my father, with the announcement “This will get you going” handed me a section of The Guardian with its Ten Rules For Writers… Gee thanks. At least this time it’s only best selling authors giving their top ten tips for writing, and I definitely live by all of Neil Gaiman’s ones already. Last time it was a how to write type thing.

Update next week with progress on Her Dark Angel.